Post on 13-May-2015
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A Project of Waggle Labs
Who we are: Web 2.0 software company, at Http://www.wagglelabs.com
Founded in January 2007
Our mission:augmenting social experiences through technology Increasing access, improving relevance, more fun!
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Pathable Buttons
Social matching based on Crowdvine profiles
My tagsMy matchesMy oppositesMy color cluster
What do Colors Mean?
Find event overview and live message feed in fowa.crowdvine.com
How Does it Work?
A little social sciencePredictors of affinity: common interests, friend
of a friend, co-occurrence at events
A little social web 2.0 technologySocial tagging: emergence of collective
knowledge
A little mathSocial network and cluster analysis
Pathable SMS
Many-to-Many MesssagingDynamic / ad hoc groupsBased on Crowdvine tagsRecommended uses:
Arrange to spontaneous BOFs Find others with similar interestsProvide real-time conference updatesHave fun
Join the Pathable Text Messaging (SMS) Backchannel now!
Go to FOWA.CROWDVINE.COM My Profile -> edit answers
Or send “JOIN <your name>" to (44) 7800008126
just send “OFF" to the same number to turn it off
Pathable SMS Syntax
Send messages to tags“Design: great presentation in room 23”
See your tags, or someone else’s tags“TAGS”“TAGS Shelly Farnham”
Add and remove tags for yourself“ADD ruby”“REMOVE ruby”
Find out who’s has a tag“WHO werewolf”
Turn messages on and off“ON / OFF”
See handout for more info!
Have fun:
Meet the people recommended by Pathable as most similar and most opposite
Report back, whom did you prefer…?
Do birds of a feather flock together…
or do opposites attract?